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Oral Tradition in African Literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chin Ce; Charles Smith
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Handel Books, 2015.
Subjects:
Literature and folklore > Africa.
African literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Re-visioning African writing
  • Issues in oral tradition
  • 2. The folktale in Achebe's fictions
  • Oral dynamics of things fall apart
  • 3. Orality in the works of Ousmane Sembene
  • 4. Oral multidimensional collage in recent fiction
  • 5. The Mythic context of Le Jujubier du patriarche
  • 6. Oral performance among the Graffi
  • Chat
  • 8. Sembene : last chat with an African griot.